Easy Crock Pot Vegetable Beef Soup

Easy crock pot vegetable beef soup recipe that’s healthy and full of flavor. Just throw everything in your slow cooker and it’s done in as quick as 2 hours. There’s a vegetarian version and you can make it faster using our Instant Pot beef vegetable soup instructions.

Adding potatoes, tomatoes, green beans and ground beef or sausage and have a hearty Old Fashioned meal ready when you come home.

Slow Cooker Vegetable Beef Soup

Like I said, if I can throw it in a crockpot, let it cook all by itself all day, and have it ready with really no effort on my part I’m all about it!! We are a busy family of 5 who all work or go to school. Most of the time there is some activity after school to travel to as well so if there is a meal ready when we get home it saves the day.

All you have to do for prep is brown the ground sausage or beef. If you use a bag of mixed frozen vegetables you don’t even need to slice produce. I don’t know about you but I love slow cooker soup recipes for dinner when it is cold outside. During the Winter I am all about it! Pair it with some rolls or garlic bread and enjoy together.

Let’s talk a little bit about slow cooking shall we?? First off I have a few different varieties and I love them all. Each one has an occasion to be used like….

1. This is my favorite 6 quart programmable one with a locking lid so it’s great for bringing to a potluck too.
2. I prefer not to use liners, but rather just spray olive oil inside before adding my food for easier cleanups.

Let me give you a peek of my pretty thang I bought recently. It goes with my kitchen so I can just leave it out on the countertop all the time. 😉

Crockpot Vegetable Beef Soup with Canned Vegetables

Soup is a great comfort food meal, especially during the colder months. It’s fairly inexpensive to make, it sticks with you, and kids typically love anything in soup form, at least mine do anyway.

For this easy slow cooker vegetable soup you will need some ground beef, sausage or turkey. I prefer spicy ground sausage from Jimmy dean if I can find it because it adds a little bit of heat and a ton of flavor to it too. Diced fresh produce works but you could also use canned if that is all you have.

If you want a vegetarian homemade vegetable beef soup in the slow cooker then just leave the meat out entirely….this recipe is very versatile! We have a lot of slow cooker vegetable recipes on our site. Why? Because you can make easy side dishes like Crockpot brussel sprouts and soups like these.

Slow Cooker Vegetable Beef Soup with Pasta

All of the veggies can be fresh, frozen, or canned. This option is nice because sometimes the grocery store has really inexpensive green beans so you might want to pick those up and use fresh, but nothing else looks great so you can get canned or frozen of the other items.

Once you cook your meat you literally throw that and all the veggies and canned tomato sauce products in, turn on your crock pot and you’re done! If you wanted to add medium size noodles, just submerge them 30 minutes before serving to get them nice and tender.

1. Chicken broth
2. Diced tomatoes – we like this petite variety
3. Potato
4. Carots
5. Celery
6. Onion
7. Ground beef – or ground turkey or sausage
8. Green beans
9. Corn

When it comes to using fresh, frozen or canned veggies like Veg-All there is a big difference when it comes to texture. If you don’t like yours super soft then you should go with fresh. That way you can slice them bigger so it won’t break down as quickly and you’ll still have a bit of “bite” to them. Next would be frozen and the softest would be canned for sure.

How do I make vegetable beef soup in a Crock pot?

You really could cook this on low on your stove top. Just add beef,  brown the meat in your pot with some olive oil first. You could use diced chuck roast or hamburger too. All you need is to meld all the flavors together so 30 minutes to 1 hour will do it over medium heat bubbling with a lid on it. On low in your Crock though is more hands off. You just throw it all in and walk away.

Does soup taste better in slow cooker?

I mean we think so. Our Crockpot loaded baked potato soup can be made in a pot but it is harder to control the heat and get it super low and steady. Even if you do it needs be stirred along the way so the bottom doesn’t burn. This way it is just hot enough where over time the ingredients get tender and flips to warm when the timing is up.

Want it faster with the other white meat? You could use our timing at the top of this post in your pressure cooker with leftover chicken if you had some to use up.

How to make delicious beef vegetable soup that does not use beef stock or bouillon

You could use a mixture of canned vegetables with their juices to flavor the extra water needed. Tomato sauce adds flavor too, or paste to make thicker. Many times I will have a few stalks of celery and carrots in the fridge but want to add more. I’ll throw in a bag of frozen green beans like you see here and I’ve been known to add a can of black beans too. I mean whatever goes.

What are some recipes to make in the slow cooker with meat and vegetables together?

• We love corned beef and cabbage in the crockpot year round
• Whole chicken in the crockpot is great with potatoes underneath that get tender together

What is the best way to save leftover soup? We talk about that in this article here. Using souper cubes has been a game changer. You know I hate wasting food so it’s a tip we speak about often.

Here is the entire slow cooker vegetable beef soup recipe below. It includes nutrition information such as calories and saturated fat. Enjoy!